Melissa Yi Books in Order
Browse Melissa Yi books in order, with quick summaries, series overviews, reading paths, and simple advice on where to start with her fiction.
Last updated: July 14, 2026
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Melissa Yi books in publication order
27 books
Indian Time
by Melissa Yi
2010
Fresh out of jail and off drugs, Fred Redish wants one decent chance to reconnect with his sons. Instead he faces prejudice, family pressure, and a brutal moral question in this lean noir tale.
Code Blues
by Melissa Yi
2011
New to Montreal, resident doctor Hope Sze wants to survive training, eat well, and maybe date. Then she finds a doctor dead in the locker room and gets pulled into her first murder case.
Dancing Through the Chaos
by Melissa Yi
2011
A belly dancing class brings together three women with very different romantic problems. Melissa Yi mixes friendship, sex, stress, and reinvention into a lively story about trying not to lose your balance.
No Air
by Melissa Yi
2011
This brisk radio drama throws Hope into a Montreal ER shift where the other day doctor never arrives and a patient crashes hard. Medical pressure and split-second decisions drive every scene.
Notorious D.O.C.
by Melissa Yi
2011
Hope wants a quiet psychiatry rotation after her first case nearly kills her. Instead, a grieving mother asks her to solve an eight-year-old murder, and the cold case starts breathing again.
The List
by Melissa Yi
2011
When Oona's husband asks for an open marriage, she throws him out and makes a list of the men she might have loved instead. What follows is funny, messy, and sharper than a revenge fantasy.
Wolf Ice
by Melissa Yi
2011
Werewolf bait killed Leila's best friend and is now wrecking her self-control. As old desire flares with her ex and rival wers close in, she has to fight lust and fear to protect her people.
High School Hit List: Animal Whisperer
by Melissa Yi
2012
Jimmy can talk to animals, which would be handy enough if a bully were not slashing through a school hit list. With help from Coyote and the creatures around him, he has to stop the violence.
Mr. Chef & Ms. Librarian
by Melissa Yi
2013
A chef and a librarian make an unlikely romantic pair, but attraction has a way of ignoring categories. This is a lighter Melissa Yi story, full of food, warmth, and complications.
Terminally Ill
by Melissa Yi
2013
After reviving an escape artist pulled from the St. Lawrence River, Hope is asked to prove his stunt was sabotaged. The case draws her into the world of magic while she faces loss and hard choices at work.
The Italian School for Assassins
by Melissa Yi
2013
Ottawa public servant Octavia Ling celebrates her birthday by trying a school for assassins in Italy. When her roommate is murdered, the game turns real and travel fun gives way to danger.
The Goa Yoga School of Slayers
by Melissa Yi
2014
Octavia and Dario head to Goa for another playful, perilous mystery. Yoga, travel, and murder make a strange mix, and Melissa Yi leans into the comic chaos.
Because
by Melissa Yi
2015
A daughter reckons with the damage done by her mother in this fierce flash mystery. It is short, dark, and emotionally raw, with all the force of a much longer story.
Blood Diamonds
by Melissa Yi
2015
Three women are bound together by blood, fear, and diamonds. When Hope tries to save a patient with a troubling secret, she stumbles into a compact crime story with sharp emotional edges.
Family Medicine
by Melissa Yi
2015
What should be a peaceful fishing trip with Hope's family turns dark fast at Black Donald Lake. This collected novella pulls family tension and mystery into one uneasy holiday.
Om
by Melissa Yi
2015
Calm is in short supply in this compact mystery set around yoga and violence. Melissa Yi plays the contrast for both tension and dark fun.
Stockholm Syndrome
by Melissa Yi
2015
An armed kidnapper storms a Montreal obstetrics ward just before Christmas, trapping Hope, Tucker, and a woman in labour. With a baby on the way and bullets nearby, every choice becomes life or death.
Human Remains
by Melissa Yi
2017
Trying to recover in Ottawa, Hope expects a quiet research month, then finds a body in the snow. The deaths that follow stretch far beyond one lab, forcing her into a colder, wider hunt.
Death Flight
by Melissa Yi
2018
Hope and Tucker are trapped on a plane with a collapsing passenger, no surgeon, and nowhere to land. As they fight to save a life at 35,000 feet, Hope fears she may already have helped kill him.
Blue Christmas
by Melissa Yi
2019
Christmas does not bring much peace to Hope Sze. In this short holiday mystery, winter stress, medical trouble, and danger close in fast.
Graveyard Shift
by Melissa Yi
2019
On an overnight ER shift, Hope juggles chaos, sick patients, and a killer stalking the halls of St. Joseph's Hospital. When someone tries to strangle her and her lover vanishes, the night turns vicious.
Scorpion Scheme
by Melissa Yi
2020
Hope and Tucker trade Canada for Egypt, only to run straight into a violent mystery involving treasure, myth, and buried gold. Ancient history and modern greed collide fast along the Nile.
Student Body
by Melissa Yi
2020
After surviving three murderers, Dr. Hope Sze comes up against a sociopath who slips past the justice system. This short, unsettling novella turns the spotlight on a dangerous mind and raises the stakes for Hope.
The Sin Eaters
by Melissa Yi
2020
A young patient's plastic surgery and hidden past pull Hope into a dark online trail of photos, dares, and lies. This short Montreal mystery is sharp, creepy, and uncomfortably close to real life.
White Lightning
by Melissa Yi
2021
A romantic weekend at a Prohibition-era inn turns ugly when Hope finds a grisly clue that may reach back to Al Capone. Ghosts, gangsters, and murder close in before morning.
The Shapes of Wrath
by Melissa Yi
2023
Starting her surgery rotation, Hope lands under a raging surgeon whose operating room feels poisoned. When deaths pile up and a ghost appears outside the hospital, wrath stops being just a metaphor.
The Red Rock Killer
by Melissa Yi
2024
Fourteen-year-old Edan Sze expects a summer of games and friends, not a dead body in Red Rock Canyon. This YA mystery blends Las Vegas danger, sharp voice, and real found-family warmth.
Where to start with Melissa Yi
If you want the main medical mystery series from the beginning: Code Blues → Notorious D.O.C. → Terminally Ill
If you like Hope Sze at her most intense: Stockholm Syndrome → Human Remains → Death Flight
If you want short reads first: The Sin Eaters → Student Body → Family Medicine
If you want something lighter and travel-heavy: The Italian School for Assassins → The Goa Yoga School of Slayers
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Code Blues
by Melissa Yi
2011Hope Sze Medical Mystery, Book 1
Notorious D.O.C.
by Melissa Yi
2011Hope Sze Medical Mystery, Book 2
Terminally Ill
by Melissa Yi
2013Hope Sze Medical Mystery, Book 3
Blood Diamonds
by Melissa Yi
2015Hope Sze Medical Mystery, Book 5
Stockholm Syndrome
by Melissa Yi
2015Hope Sze Medical Mystery, Book 4
Human Remains
by Melissa Yi
2017Hope Sze Medical Mystery, Book 6
Death Flight
by Melissa Yi
2018Hope Sze Medical Mystery, Book 7
Blue Christmas
by Melissa Yi
2019Hope Sze Medical Mystery, Book 9
Graveyard Shift
by Melissa Yi
2019Hope Sze Medical Mystery, Book 8
Scorpion Scheme
by Melissa Yi
2020Hope Sze Medical Mystery, Book 12
Student Body
by Melissa Yi
2020Hope Sze Medical Mystery, Book 10
The Sin Eaters
by Melissa Yi
2020Hope Sze Medical Mystery, Book 11
White Lightning
by Melissa Yi
2021Hope Sze Medical Mystery, Book 13
Hope Sze Medical Mystery books in chronological order

Code Blues
by Melissa Yi
2011Hope Sze Medical Mystery, Book 1
Notorious D.O.C.
by Melissa Yi
2011Hope Sze Medical Mystery, Book 2
Terminally Ill
by Melissa Yi
2013Hope Sze Medical Mystery, Book 3
Stockholm Syndrome
by Melissa Yi
2015Hope Sze Medical Mystery, Book 4
Blood Diamonds
by Melissa Yi
2015Hope Sze Medical Mystery, Book 5
Human Remains
by Melissa Yi
2017Hope Sze Medical Mystery, Book 6
Death Flight
by Melissa Yi
2018Hope Sze Medical Mystery, Book 7
Graveyard Shift
by Melissa Yi
2019Hope Sze Medical Mystery, Book 8
Blue Christmas
by Melissa Yi
2019Hope Sze Medical Mystery, Book 9
Student Body
by Melissa Yi
2020Hope Sze Medical Mystery, Book 10
The Sin Eaters
by Melissa Yi
2020Hope Sze Medical Mystery, Book 11
Scorpion Scheme
by Melissa Yi
2020Hope Sze Medical Mystery, Book 12
White Lightning
by Melissa Yi
2021Hope Sze Medical Mystery, Book 13
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Author bio
Melissa Yi is the crime-writing name of emergency physician Melissa Yuan-Innes, and that double life tells you a lot about her books. She writes with the speed, pressure, and dark humor of someone who has seen real emergencies up close, then gone home and turned the mess into story.
She was a library kid first. As a child, she read so fiercely that her parents would drop her off at the library while her brother went to tae kwon do. When her family moved from Canada to Frankfurt at age ten, the sudden shortage of English books pushed her toward writing her own stories. Later, the family moved back to Canada, to the outskirts of Ottawa before she started grade 8, and she kept reading, performing, and writing through the awkward years of school.
She came to writing as a reader first.
Medicine arrived because she wanted to save lives, and because she is curious about people. She studied emergency medicine at McGill in Montreal, and her years of training gave her a close look at the strain, absurdity, and occasional heartbreak of hospital life. She has spoken plainly about how rough some of that training could be, from overcrowded waiting rooms to a family medicine clinic with no running water. Out of that world came Dr. Hope Sze, the resident doctor who can treat a crashing patient and still find herself hunting a killer before the shift is over.
That character anchors Yi's best-known fiction. The Hope Sze books, including Code Blues, Notorious D.O.C., Terminally Ill, Stockholm Syndrome, Human Remains, and White Lightning, blend medical detail with murder, travel, family stress, and a touch of mischief. Readers tend to come for the hospital suspense and stay for Hope herself, who is smart, funny, stubborn, and never as cool on the inside as she looks from the outside. Terminally Ill even made the jump to the stage, which feels fitting for a writer who clearly enjoys working in more than one form.
Yi does not stay in one lane for long.
Outside the Hope books, she has written lighter travel mysteries such as The Italian School for Assassins and The Goa Yoga School of Slayers, the YA mystery High School Hit List: Animal Whisperer, the Vegas-set The Red Rock Killer, the noir story Indian Time, the werewolf thriller Wolf Ice, and romance too. Under the name Melissa Yuan-Innes, she also writes fantasy, science fiction, poetry, memoir, and very funny medical nonfiction. Her stage piece based on The Most Unfeeling Doctor in the World won Best of Fest at the Ottawa Fringe, which gives you another clue about her style: even when the material gets heavy, she likes wit, movement, and human detail.
A few things show up again and again in her work. Systems under stress. Women trying to keep their footing. Families that are loving but messy. Travel that opens doors and trouble at the same time. She has worked in Ontario and Quebec, and as far north as Ivujivik, Quebec, and now practices in Eastern Ontario. She is married to her high school sweetheart, has two children, loves yoga, travel, reading, Fringe festivals, and food, and still seems happiest when medicine and imagination are both making noise at once.
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